Effect of hypochondriasis tendency on health behavior and selective memory biases in patients with non-cardiac chest painAbstract.Background: The cognitive-behavioral model of health anxiety and hypochondriasis emphasizes the importance of selective ...
Emotional ambivalence, illness behavior, depression, and social interaction: Investigations for the German version of the “Ambivalence over Emotional Expressiveness Questionnaire” (AEQ-G18)Abstract. A new 18-item German version of the Ambivalence over ...
The concepts of illness behavior (IB), coping (C), and health-related quality of life (HQL) are commonly used in the health field. Nevertheless, there are doubts about their ability to discriminate among groups of patients and to predict anxiety and ...
Abstract. The present study addresses shortcomings in previous psychometric research into the Scale for the Assessment of Illness Behavior (SAIB) and develops a short form, the SAIB-10. We used ant-colony optimization to construct a subset ...